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KMID : 1143420210140140784
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Public Health Weekly Report
2021 Volume.14 No. 14 p.784 ~ p.799
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Characteristics of the Notified Tuberculosis - Republic of Korea, 2020
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Kim Jin-Sun
Lee Hye-Won
In Hye-Kyung
Shim Eun-Hye
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Abstract
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Tuberculosis (TB) is a serious health problem in Korea. Among the 36 OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and
Development member countries) in 2020, the Republic of Korea ranked the highest incidence (59 per 100,000 population)
and the second-highest TB mortality rate (4.0 per 100,000 population). The aim of this paper was to examine the
characteristics of notified TB cases in 2020. Findings indicated that, in 2020, the overall notification rate of new TB cases
was 38.8 per 100,000 population, with a reduction of 16.4% from the 2019 rate. Also, 49.1% of new TB cases involved
elderly patients aged 65 years or older and the new TB notification rate of the elderly was 120.3 per 100,000 population,
with a reduction of 17.2% from the 2019 rate. The crude incidence in foreign-born TB patients decreased from 1,597 in 2019
to 1,316 in 2020. Beneficiaries of medical aid, the socioeconomically vulnerable population, had a 3.8 times higher rate of
new TB notification compared to beneficiaries of mandatory social health insurance. The number of multidrug-resistant TB
cases dropped from 580 in 2019 to 399 in 2020. In 2021, to reduce the TB burden, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention
Agency (KDCA) implemented the ‘Measures to Strengthen TB Prevention Management,’ established in 2019 and so should
be able to reach the goal of ending TB in 2030.
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KEYWORD
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Tuberculosis, Epidemiological characteristics, Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis
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